Finally the big mystery where the hell is this nice editor coming from? First of JavaFX has no such nice control as SWTs StyledText but what it has is a Webkit-Browser and Java/JavaScript integration. So guess what the the editor you are seeing there is the one developed by the Orion project at Eclipse.org – no joke!

Packaging up the whole thing into a product without JavaFX the size is ~25MB – if packaging JavaFX so that you get a “crossplatform-no-prerequist” product the size would be ~92MB.

Not sure what Dave is talking about. This trumps SWT on JavaFX which we both agree would be very difficult. I’m coming to the mind that we need to dump SWT in it’s entirety and start the UI from scratch. But that’s a huge job that is likely impossible.

Yes it is similar to the SWT-BrowserFunction – frankly I have not yet measured the performance but I’m reacting on every single keypress in the browser already. You can take a glance at the source which is as always is located at my github account – this time https://github.com/tomsontom/fx-ide.

There are multiple interesting things going on here. First of suddenly JavaFX has a rich text editor. Second thing is that it shows how powerful and well designed Eclipse Technologies are and third this is a prototype of a new lightweight Java-IDE.